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and growth of the Naples Zoological Station 

 that he founded. Whether from these mater- 

 ials it will he possible to reconstruct a com- 

 plete history of the station, can not as yet be 

 definitely said; but at all events the many let- 

 ters that Dohrn wrote to his scientific friends 

 could not fail to fill up many gaps and throw 

 more light on the whole subject. All those, 

 accordingly, who have in their possession any 

 letters from Dohrn, and are willing to give a 

 helping hand in this undertaking, would be 

 doing a great service if they would lend these 

 letters, or copies of them, for the purposes of 

 the work. All communications should be ad- 

 dressed to Frau Marie Dohrn, Rione Amedio, 

 92, Naples. 



Dr. Charles B. Dudley, chief chemist of 

 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, past 

 president of the American Chemical Society, 

 died at his home in Altoona, Pa., on December 

 21 at the age of sixty-eight years. 



Dr. Ludwig Mond, the distinguished indus- 

 trial chemist and investigator, a founder of 

 the alkali firm of Brimner, Mond and Co., 

 died in London on December 11, at the age of 

 seventy years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission will 

 hold an examination on January 12 for the ap- 

 pointment in the Bureau of ■ Standards of an 

 engineer-physicist at $3,000 per year and as- 

 sociate engineer-physicist at $2,000 per year. 

 Applicants should be able to carry on inde- 

 pendent research in the field of engineering 

 physics, and should have training and experi- 

 ence in the inspection and testing of engineer- 

 ing and structural materials, the operation of 

 testing machines and the interpretation of the 

 results of investigations. Titles and refer- 

 ences to the original source of publication of 

 all papers published should be given. 



According to the London Times, it is 

 planned to establish in Germany a Chemische 

 Reichsanstalt to undertake for chemical in- 

 dustry similar functions to those which the 

 Imperial Physical Institute performs for engi- 

 neering. The undertaking is being subsidized 

 by the state, and it is expected that the an- 

 nual maintenance will cost about £10,000. 



A CONFERENCE on the eradication of the 

 liookworm disease will be held in Atlanta, on 

 January 18 and 19. Delegates will be ap- 

 pointed to the conference from Alabama, Mis- 

 sissippi, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. 



The second general meeting of the Interna- 

 tional Institute of Agriculture was held at 

 Rome beginning on December 12. 



The annual exhibition of physical apparatus 

 organized by the London Physical Society was 

 held on December 14 at the Imperial College 

 of Science, South Kensington. 



The annual meeting of the Association of 

 American Universities will be held at the 

 University of Wisconsin on January 4-5. 

 Among the subjects to be discussed at this 

 meeting are " The Problem of the Assistant 

 Professor," to be discussed by a representative 

 of Leland Stanford Universit.y ; " University 

 Extension," to be presented by Director L. E. 

 Reber, of the extension division of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin ; and " The Position and 

 Importance of the Arts Course as Distinct 

 from the Professional Course," to be read by 

 President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton. 



VNIVEB8IT1' AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 At a meeting of the senate of the Univer- 

 sity of London on December 16, a letter was 

 read from Mr. Otto Beit, announcing a large 

 gift in the interest of medical research. Mr. 

 Beit's brother, the late Mr. Alfred Beit, left 

 £50,000 to found an " Institute of Medical 

 Sciences." As the formation of this institute 

 has for various reasons become impossible, Mr. 

 Beit has decided to increase the sum left by 

 his brother to £215,000. This fund, which is 

 to be named " The Beit Memorial Fellowships 

 for Medical Research," is to be devoted to the 

 furthering of medical research work in all its 

 branches. With this object a sum of £250 a 

 year for three years is to be granted " to any 

 man or woman of European descent, graduate 

 of any approved university within the British 

 Empire, who is elected to a Fellowship." The 

 first election of fellows will take place on or 

 before March 1, 1910. 



